Archive: 01/2011
2011-01-01
2011-01-03
- This week in history: January 3-January 9
- Australia: Jury delivers split verdict in long-running “terror” trial
- Investigation exposes abuse of foreign students on US work visas
- US state governments prepare attacks on jobs, wages, pensions
- Severe weather and lack of preparation cause chaos in Moscow airports
- A welcome advance for the Pakistani and world working class
- President Aquino imposes strike ban on Philippines Airlines workers
- Build the Pakistani section of the International Committee of the Fourth International!
- General Motors Europe: No end to job losses
- Forty-eight US miners killed in 2010 — most since 1992
- Lebanon government gave covert support for Israeli attack on Hezbollah
- Ireland’s emergency service workers abandon SIPTU union
- UK Heinz workers strike over pay deal
- Sarkozy’s right-wing policies bolster French neo-fascist
- Fire kills five family members in the Seattle, Washington area
- Martin Scorsese’s Boardwalk Empire: a gangster series too much about gangster movies
- The Artificial Ape: How humans invented themselves
2011-01-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Detroit charter school teacher: “I feel horrible, nearly helpless, and completely unsupported by the administration.”
- New York settles fraud charges with ex-Auto Task Force head Steven Rattner
- John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment of news reporting as state propaganda
- Obama’s reign of terror in Afghanistan
- Build the Pakistani section of the International Committee of the Fourth International!
- Documents expose Egyptian regime as stooge of US imperialism
- 1990 cable details crucial meeting on eve of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
- James L. Brooks’ How Do You Know inspires a question in return: Why this film?
- State of emergency in Highland Park, Michigan after water system failure
- Australia: Queensland floods worsen, with major regional towns cut off
- Egypt destabilised in wake of bomb attack on Coptic Church
- New Year begins with multiple US missile attacks in Pakistan
- Letters from our readers
2011-01-05
- Texas man declared innocent after 30 years in prison
- The 112th US Congress convenes
- Pakistan’s PPP-led government on brink of collapse
- Build the Pakistani section of the International Committee of the Fourth International!
- Wall Street reinforcements for Obama White House
- Mounting prospect of military intervention in Ivory Coast
- Northern Ireland gripped by water crisis
- Cables expose US-Israeli war talks
- An interview with photographer Andrew Moore, author of Detroit Disassembled
- Australia: Labor governments vow to retain “bikie laws” despite High Court ruling
- Break with the DFT! Build rank-and-file committees to defend public education
- Detroit Disassembled by Andrew Moore: The devastation of a major American city
- Striking Detroit Symphony musicians to perform at free concert
- Inflation haunts Chinese government
2011-01-06
- Cables reveal how US and UK sought to plunder Zimbabwe’s resources
- US national security insider found dead in trash dump
- East Timor: Alleged 2008 “coup” plotter accuses Prime Minister Gusmao of political manipulation
- Sri Lanka: Former Tamil detainees speak to the WSWS
- The European Union and freedom of the press
- Build the Pakistani section of the International Committee of the Fourth International!
- A modest pay
- Letters from our readers
- Right-wing Democrat takes California governor’s office, demands “sacrifice”
- Drastic austerity measures hit Bulgaria
- 1.5 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2010
- Suit challenges use of pepper spray on Birmingham, Alabama students
2011-01-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Spanish air traffic controllers’ union facilitates government persecution of its members
- Quebec’s Alliance Sociale: An instrument for defending the union bureaucracy’s privileges
- Using new formula, Census Bureau ups estimate of US poverty rate to 15.7 percent
- Obama orders new Afghan surge
- Sri Lanka: NSSP prepares new trap for Tamil workers and youth
- Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 2: An uneven collection of mid-1950s releases
- Hypocrisy of German social democrats and Greens over welfare “reform” for the jobless
- Australia: Queensland crisis points to lack of flood mitigation and basic infrastructure
- Details of Seattle, Washington area fire deaths released
- BP claims czar: $10 billion “more than enough” to compensate oil spill victims
- British police trained Bangladeshi death squads
2011-01-08
- The media and the man with the “golden voice”
- Great power rivalries over oil animate Sudan secession referendum
- Recent developments bring quantum computers closer to implementation
- “Land of Hope and bloody Glory, eh?”: Pete Postlethwaite (1946-2011)
- New York students play on school “reform” censored
- World economy faces deepening turmoil
- Study reveals growing social inequality in OECD countries
- Julian Moti prepares High Court challenge to Australian government’s politically motivated charges
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US jobs report for December: No relief from mass unemployment
- Greece to build fortified border fence to deter refugees
- Springfield, Illinois mayor’s suicide highlights social crisis in Illinois
- Obama picks Wall Street insider as White House chief of staff
- Letters from our readers
2011-01-10
- WikiLeaks cables confirm US knowledge of Indonesian military’s crimes
- US government demands Twitter account information of WikiLeaks and followers
- Irish Republic hit by water crisis
- This week in history: January 10-January 16
- Man attempts suicide in Romanian parliament
- Riots shake Tunisia and Algeria
- The Tucson shootings: A warning to the American people
- The American Student Loan Racket
- Ireland’s United Left Alliance: A fake oppositional movement
- Wall Street Journal condemns talk of US withdrawal from Iraq
- Australia: Flood management expert speaks to the World Socialist Web Site
- Blake Edwards, director of classic Hollywood comedies, dies at 88
- Striking Detroit Symphony bassist: “It is really an eye-opening lesson for us musicians”
- Arizona assassination spree tied to political right
2011-01-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US government pursues bogus criminal prosecution of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- After the shooting in Tucson
- Democrats, Republicans plan deep cuts in US state budgets
- Price rises deepen discontent in Sri Lanka
- Australia: More deaths as a “wall of water” engulfs Queensland towns
- French magazine Politis promotes petition on pension reform
- Sudan: A tale of blood and oil in Africa
- Australia: SEP member exposes role of Greens and unions at Macquarie University rally
- The decay of Russia’s infrastructure
- India’s Congress-led government unable to quash 2G scandal
- US defence secretary warns China not to “underestimate” US military power
- David O. Russell’s The Fighter: “Big-hearted” people treated seriously
- Estonia adopts the euro
- Obama proposes increased defense spending
- Letters from our readers
- Media whitewashes ultra-right in Arizona massacre
2011-01-12
- Video on the anniversary of the Dexter Avenue fire
- Reports reveal state massacre of Tunisian protesters
- Australia: Commodity prices soar as Queensland becomes “inland sea”
- One year since the earthquake in Haiti
- Serious floods threaten thousands in Australia’s third largest city
- Fiat workers in Turin confront management blackmail
- New York governor unveils major attacks on education, health care, and public employees
- The ISO, the middle-class “left” and the Chicago Teachers Union
- 通货膨胀困扰中国政府
- Don Van Vliet—“Captain Beefheart” (1941-2010): Avant-garde musician and painter
- Italy: The Cesare Battisti case and the attack on democratic rights
- Bonus bonanza for UK’s top bankers
- WikiLeaks founder faces “real risk” of rendition to US, torture and death
2011-01-13
- Curfew ordered in Tunisian capital
- Australia: National Union of Workers sells out six-week Swift meatworkers’ struggle
- Reports warned of flood dangers to Brisbane
- Commission report whitewashes BP’s role in oil spill
- Scottish Socialist Party ensures conviction of former leader Tommy Sheridan
- CIA terrorist Posada Carriles on trial for lying to immigration
- US Federal Reserve chief rules out loans to the states
- Pakistan’s summer floods: A man-made disaster
- Obama in Tucson: Providing an amnesty for the right wing
- Letters from our readers
- South Korea and Japan discuss first-ever military agreements
- Australia: Floods engulf Brisbane as reports reveal authorities rejected warning measures
- New York City building workers locked out over demands for wage and benefit cuts
- Letters on the Tucson shootings
- Newfoundland inquiry issues report on year-and-a-half long Voisey’s Bay strike
- California governor begins term proposing massive austerity budget
- UAW, GM discuss pay scheme tied to productivity and profits
- WikiLeaks supporters protest threatened extradition of Julian Assange
- More evidence of right-wing links to Tucson attack
2011-01-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- One million affected by Sri Lankan floods
- Queensland flood chief Major-General Mick Slater issues ominous warning
- The historical falsification of Rosa Luxemburg's heritage by the German Left Party
- Social conflict in Maghreb has international implications
- Australia: New South Wales nurses union shuts down action over staffing
- US pressure triggers collapse of Lebanese government
- Unite union accepts below inflation pay deal for UK Heinz workers
- US: Oklahoma executes two prisoners in one week
- 2010 sets US home foreclosure record
- Detroit Symphony management publishes attack on striking musicians
- Dioxin contaminates food in Germany
- Arizona Republican resigns over Tea Party threats
2011-01-15
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Tunisian president flees the country
- Portugal under mounting pressure to accept financial bailout
- The flood crises in Sri Lanka and Australia
- Lawyer protests brutal treatment of Bradley Manning
- Egyptian regime fears mass protests
- Letters from our readers
- US adopts bellicose posture in advance of state visit by Chinese president
- Hundreds dead in Brazilian flooding
- Belarus cracks down on opposition in wake of presidential vote
- Right-wing and liberal media fawn over Obama speech
2011-01-17
- This week in history: January 17-January 23
- Tunisian ruling elite promises national government, imposes military rule
- Rawmarsh school teachers strike against job cuts in Rotherham, UK
- Australia: Despite inquiry backflip, NSW Labor pushes ahead with electricity selloff
- The mass uprising in Tunisia and the perspective of permanent revolution
- New Zealand mine recovery attempts abandoned
- The Nation and the Tucson massacre
- Illinois Democrats foist budget crisis onto working class
- German media spreads nationalism by right-wing demagogues
- German political parties haggle over unemployed payments
- The German foreign office and its defenders
- Floods crisis widens in Australia
- The Denisova discovery: Ancient genomics shed new light on human origins
- Thousands march in France to support the Tunisian people
2011-01-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tunisia forms unity government dominated by ruling party
- Opposition rally in Thailand cuts across government’s election manoeuvres
- Scotland’s budget cuts to slash 125,000 jobs
- Wall Street celebrates record profits
- Tunisian events expose pro-imperialist policy of France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party
- Australia: Grantham flood survivor threatened with arrest
- German Supreme Court overturns acquittal of officer implicated in asylum seeker’s death
- Australia: Labor government makes out-of-court settlement with former Guantánamo prisoner over torture allegations
- Striking DSO musicians perform Rodgers and Hammerstein in Detroit
- Auto show: Car executives, UAW officials celebrate “return of Detroit”
2011-01-19
- Washington state governor calls for draconian cuts in new budget
- Tunisia’s “unity” government fractures as protests continue
- Sri Lanka’s flood victims express anger over government’s lack of aid
- Photo essay: The DSO strike in photos
- How I Got Over, the new album from The Roots
- Roma woman dies following deportation to Kosovo
- WikiLeaks and Tunisia
- Obama orders further deregulation of US economy
- Global food prices hit record high
- The Fiat vote in Turin: Unions push through historic attack on Italian workers
- Australia’s two-track economy: Industrial decline, despite mining boom
- “Baby Doc” Duvalier arrested in Haiti
- CAUS votes to hold Detroit march against utility shutoffs
- Exposure of police spy in UK sheds light on covert operations
2011-01-20
- Thousands march against Tunisia’s “unity” government
- Police march en masse at Toronto funeral
- Sri Lankan coverup of WikiLeaks war crime revelations
- Natural gas explosion in Philadelphia kills utility worker, injures three
- The US-China summit
- News of the World hacking scandal throws spotlight on Murdoch media empire
- Australia: Electrical union promotes right-wing MP Bob Katter
- The decay of Russia’s infrastructure
- Republican House votes to repeal Obama health care plan
- No agreement on euro crisis
- Letters from our readers
2011-01-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Swiss banker jailed for supplying information to WikiLeaks
- Rising work-related deaths and diseases in Vietnam
- The American middle class “left” and the Tunisian revolt
- Rail unions collaborate in London Underground job losses
- The crisis in Europe and the financial aristocracy
- Middle East and North Africa feel repercussions of Tunisian revolution
- Obama administration to step up prosecutions in Guantánamo tribunals
- As talks resume: Detroit Symphony musicians’ struggle in danger
- House fires claim 30 lives around the US
- Cost of living to rise for Australian workers in 2011
- Report documents widening US health disparities and inequality
2011-01-22
- Anti-government protests continue in Tunisia during official mourning period
- Spanish unions and middle class “left” back state repression of air traffic controllers
- Sri Lanka: Free Trade Zone unions mount bogus wage campaign
- Utility prices surge across Russia
- Obama’s jobs fraud
- Utility shutoff leads to three deaths in Oakland, California apartment fire
- Mars rovers mark seven years on the planet’s surface
- Nazi “Butcher of Lyon” was a German intelligence agent
- Fifty years since the murder of Patrice Lumumba
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US youth returns home after torture in Kuwait
- Fire destroys three homes in historic Delray neighborhood of Detroit
- Letters on the uprising in Tunisia
- Britain’s official unemployment tops 2.5 million
- Bombing attempt at Martin Luther King march in Spokane
- WSWS statement on Tunisia now available in Arabic
- ثورة شعبية تجتاح تونس وآمال في ثورة دائمة
2011-01-24
- This week in history: January 24-January 30
- Antigovernment protests spread across Northern Africa and Middle East
- US state budget deficits could top $140 billion
- Sri Lanka: Military discipline for university students
- French government in crisis over its support for Tunisian dictatorship
- More evidence of US war crimes
- Keith Olbermann leaves MSNBC: Another rightward lurch in US media
- Afghan president continues building ties with Moscow
- International talks over Iran’s nuclear program collapse
- US begins deportation of Haitians
- Egyptian opposition warns of an “explosion of the masses”
2011-01-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Student homelessness at all-time high in Washington state
- Police crackdown in Tunisia meets resistance
- True Grit, a revenge tale from the Coen brothers
- Sri Lanka: Terror campaign against Tamils reemerges
- The White House’s corporate agenda
- Secret Palestine documents expose sham “peace process”
- The Guerilla Orchestra and the struggle to defend the arts from funding cuts
- New York mayor moves to shut public schools while promoting charters
- Teachers and students speak out against New York school closings
- UK National Health Service faces wholesale privatization
- Moscow airport bombing kills 35
- Amnesty International opposes US abuse of Private Manning
- A letter on the Denisova discovery
- Tunisian popular revolt exposes France’s middle-class “left”
- Oppose Brown’s cuts in California! Education must be a social right!
- Irish election called: Fianna Fail and Greens facing wipe-out
- Australian floods crisis continues
- DSO support concert broadcast live via webcast
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese police shoot protesting construction workers
2011-01-26
- 图森枪击事件之后
- Ex-Washington, DC schools chief escalates campaign against public education
- Stranded migrant workers protest in Saudi Arabia
- The Palestine papers and the dead-end of nationalism
- US drone attacks provoke fury in Pakistan
- Obama outlines right-wing, pro-corporate agenda in State of the Union speech
- The 83rd Academy Awards nominations—the worst of times, the best of times
- Wigan, UK: Unite union secures vote for wage deal at Heinz
- The Bavarian state bank’s corruption scandal
- Detroit house fire injures five
- FBI infiltrator prepared government raid on antiwar groups in Minneapolis and Chicago
- Tens of thousands march in Egypt against Mubarak regime
- Murdoch’s News of the World phone hacking forces resignation of Andy Coulson
- Evidence of intensifying climate change grows
- Education crisis in California
- Berlusconi’s scandals and the proposed “left”-right coalition in Italy
2011-01-27
- British GDP fell in fourth quarter
- Sri Lankan government intensifies Colombo evictions
- Obama’s State of the Union address
- Lebanese conflict threatens civil war, Israeli-US intervention
- Australia: Gillard announces aid for business, nothing for flood victims
- US pursues two-track policy to suppress protests in Egypt and Tunisia
- Detroit Symphony management steps up campaign for concessions with threat to cancel season
- Russia to step up repression after Moscow bombing
- Letters from our readers
- US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas violated conflict of interest law
- Human rights report cites Brazil for torture, police killings
- Tony Blair’s testimony before Iraq inquiry: One war criminal amongst many
- ASEAN transport links boost economic integration with China
- Three killed in protests in Albania
2011-01-28
- Anti-government protests erupt in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Labor’s NSW power privatisation—a no-lose deal for big investors
- US Postal Service to close 2,000 offices
- Smallest rocky planet outside our solar system discovered
- Egypt, Tunisia, and the fight against US imperialism
- Thirteen-year-old in Pennsylvania could face life in prison
- Stop US torture of Bradley Manning!
- ISSE meetings in Germany defend WikiLeaks
- Obama’s speech and the bankruptcy of identity politics
- Human Rights Watch condemns US prison system, immigration policy
- Job crisis drives rise in US home foreclosures
- Unemployed Detroit woman dies in house fire
- Financial crisis commission defends Wall Street criminals
- Egyptian government deploys police, shuts down Internet ahead of mass demonstrations
- Socialist Equality Party and ISSE hold conference in Australia
2011-01-29
- WikiLeaks exposes US complicity in murder, torture by Egyptian government
- US, interim government conspire against Tunisian masses
- The United States, Egypt and the fight for socialist revolution
- Britain’s MI6 trained Abbas in suppression of Palestinian opposition
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Egypt shuts down internet access
- Detroit cuts funding for homeless warming centers
- Australia’s floods: a failure of government and the profit system
- FBI, UK police carry out raids against WikiLeaks supporters
- Hundreds of thousands across Egypt defy police attacks to demand ouster of Mubarak
- Second-lowest US wage gain in three decades
- US commander in Afghanistan boasts of inflicting “enormous losses”
2011-01-31
- WikiLeaks cable shows close US ties with new Egyptian vice president
- This week in history: January 31 - February 6
- An errand-boy for French imperialism: NPA’s Olivier Besancenot visits Tunisia
- Canada: Mass rally in support of locked-out US Steel workers
- Canada: Steelworkers struggle at a crossroads
- The Obama administration and Egypt
- Australia: SEP Victorian election campaign meeting
- Massachusetts budget axes 900 jobs, cuts local aid
- Obama administration presses for law on Internet data retention
- Australia: The socialist alternative in the Broadmeadows by-election
- Mass protests continue in defiance of Egypt’s government and military
- Protests in London and Manchester against education cuts
- International demonstrations in support of Egyptian uprising
- Bankers lay down the law at Davos
- China’s property bubble reaches explosive levels
- Regional divisions threaten to break Belgium apart
- Irish unions seek to end dispute at Aer Lingus
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